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I came across this list of 21 books every woman should read http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/recent-books-women-should-read_n_7314166.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000010I've managed two so far :D
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Your new library sounds wonderful. Glad you are settling in and moved. :grouphug:
Weeeell I am not completely moved. I am currently at my grandparents and will be for a month (at least) but the big move is done. The next step can be done in increments (or with professional movers which looks increasingly likely) as it is a local move.
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The emergency number in Sweden is financed through taxes. At this point in time the government pays a private company a fixed rate per year that has been the same since 2006. (Like Laura I had to look it up since I had no clue :blush: )
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33. "Flygirl" by Sherri L. Smith. Found on the MightyGirl booklist. Liked this one, too. Wonder which other MightyGirl books my library has?
32. "mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine. I found this one on the MightyGirl booklist, and since DD10 has been diagnosed ASD level 2, and since my library had it... Very good.
31. "The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders" by Elizabeth Verdick & Elizabeth Reeve, M.D. A library find. I liked it so much I hopped on Amazon and ordered three copies so my two older kids and I can read it together.
30. "Asperger's and Girls" by Tony Attwood.
29. "A Veiled Antiquity" by Rett MacPherson.
28. "As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust" by Alan Bradley.
27. "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan.
26. "Temple Theology: An Introduction" by Margaret Barker.
25. "Walking With the Women of the New Testament" by Heather Farrell (LDS).
24. "Cub Scout BEAR Handbook."
23. "How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids" by Thomas C. Foster.
22. "Women and the Priesthood" by Sheri Dew (LDS).
21. "No More Meltdowns" by Jed Baker, Ph.D.
20. "Amazed by Grace" by Sheri Dew (LDS).
19. "Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace" by Sarah Mackenzie.
18. "How to Become a Straight-A Student" by Cal Newport.
17. "Eight Plus One" by Robert Cormier.
16. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand.
15. "How to Train Your Dragon" by Cressida Cowell.
14. "As You Wish" by Cary Elwes.
13. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.
12. "My Louisiana Sky" by Kimberly Willis Holt.
11. "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" by Alan Alda.
10. "When I Was Your Age" edited by Amy Ehrlich.
9. "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick.
8. “Broken Things to Mend†by Jeffrey R. Holland (LDS)
7. “When You Can't Do It Alone†by Brent Top. (LDS)
6. “What to Do When You Worry Too Much†and “What to Do When Your Temper Flares†by Dawn Huebner, Ph.D.â€
5. “Tales of a Female Nomad†by Rita Golden Gelman.
4. “Heaven is for Real†by Todd Burpo.
3. "Your Happily Ever After" and "The Remarkable Soul of a Woman" by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. (LDS)
2. "Cliff-Hanger" by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson.
1. "Rage of Fire" by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson.
I am really loving the Mighty Girl site (and fb page) and all their book lists. The other day they had two lists of classics and there were several I haven't read and really want to read now.
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Hello!
I went in to the city today and, among other things, got a library card. I went to the main library. It is FOUR floors of books. Loads of books in English. AND they had request to purchase slips all over the place!!!! And there is a cafe. I can see myself spending many Saturdays there :D
60. Kiss Me by Susan Mallery
61. The Last Thing He Needs by J. H. Knight
62. In Front of God and Everyone by Nealy Wagner
63. Everything He Needs by J. H. Knight
64. It's Never Over by Nealy Wagner
65. HIM by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (review will be up on the blog on Monday)
66. Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole
67. Finding Their Way by A. M. Arthur
68. Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole
69. Focus on Me by Megan Ericksson
70. Curve Ball by Sloan Johnson
71. Get Your Shine On by Nick Wilgus
I'm having a hard time settling down to one book. I keep dipping into different books but they aren't holding my attention. It is a pain. And I have a new book coming tomorrow. Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowens. It is extra annoying as they aren't bad books, just...I don't know...
I haven't read any Allende.
I read Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie and it didn't really do it for me.
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Yes indeed, but in the UK (and I think in Australia) your call is routed to a national call centre that can put you through to any local station nationwide. So I could call 999 and say, 'I'm in Scotland, but I just spoke to my mother and she has fallen and needs an ambulance in Bristol - her address is XYZ' and they could directly dispatch someone to help her, because it's an integrated system. The fact that Bristol is eight hours away from me makes no difference.
It's the same in Sweden. If I call 112 I can tell them an address anywhere in the country and they will dispatch the correct service to the correct address.
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Not so much weird but I do find 1Corinthians 14:33-35 deeply troubling (the verses about women being quiet in church and submitting). Now I have read some commentary that says that in the historical context it was actually about women who were busy bodies and drowning out the true teachings, but I find that it is often applied to mean that women should not speak up and that this verse is the root of a great deal of misogyny.
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I've known people who've done this from both sides. The biggest concern I've heard from au pairs/nannies is that their employer expects them to work more than they're actually paying them to work. It can be hard for the children (or parents) to learn that the au pair is not working even though she is sitting right there in the house. If you've hired someone to work about six hours a day, she'll will probably be at your house and not working a lot. It can also be very isolating for them, especially if they are coming from another country. They can also feel a bit trapped in the job. But I've also known a lot of women who love the children they are taking care of and feel like part of the family.
I've also known lots of people who've hired live-in help. Cultural differences can be very hard to deal with and also work expectations. It's important to know exactly what working hours means. In the US, if she's on-call and available, she's working, even if you don't actually ask her to do anything. I definitely thinks it's a good idea to go through an agency, although I've seen the process work very well without one. And I agree with Laura- you need to think about how you'll feel about having someone there all the time, not just when she's working. And do decide what your house rules are. A friend of ours from Mexico was hired as an au pair to work in the US because of her religion- it wasn't the same as her employer's, but her employer had said she wanted someone from that religion because of certain lifestyle habits. You are inviting someone to live in your house.
Good luck! I think it's a great idea if that makes things work better for your family.
The bolded is VERY TRUE! I was an au pair (I did NOT go with an organization and I now tell everyone I hear of going to not do what I did). I felt like I was ALWAYS on. The kids would wake me up to help them in the morning even on my days off. So make sure that your kids know when it is okay to ask the au pair and when not.
One of my cousins has had several au pairs and she is still in contact with many of them. I had a colleague who was an au pair and she is still in contact with the family, she was just telling me that the little girl she used to look after is about to become a mom herself :)
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Use an agency. For your sake and for the au pairs sake.
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Speaking of Afghanistan have you seen the story about the woman in the Afghan Girl picture ?
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Oh yeah RPF is just CREEPY. It is one thing imagining yourself with your favourite actor/actress/sports star what have you. It is a WHOLE nother ball game writing it out and putting it online.
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No I haven't. What is it about?
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I honestly can't remember and I didn't finish it. Maybe someone else can chime in.
I feel like I should read it, we have so many Afghan refugees here.
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I think I see what the author was trying to accomplish and I would say that he had accomplished it. Maybe there are people who need to read it to know what can happen under those sorts of circumstances. I didn,t learn anything from the book that I didn,t already know, so for me, it was just unnecessary pain.
I get seasick in the car, too. I love my noise-canceling headphones. And my little round fist-sized speaker. : )
Nan
Yes I think that is exactly right.
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I liked Wives and Daughters. You might find it fun. I hated Kite Runner and would approach Suns with great caution. And Faust is a blast and what I would consider an easy, fast read, so I don't think you should worry about it. (Probably should add that I don't try to analyse things to much, which might be why I thought the Faust was fun and easy. Maybe It isn't if you approach it differently?)
Just in case that helps...
Nan
I didn't hate Kite Runner but it isn't a book I feel I will ever need to re-read. It disturbed me. Suns I started as an audiobook but then my audible app went wonky and I lost where I was and I never went back to it. Maybe now that I will have a longer commute that is a book I can listen too (I get motion sickness sometimes so I tend not to read a great deal when in moving vehicles).
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I've read some good West Wing ones but many of them are gone now. Also some good BSG ones but again many are gone now. I actually haven't read much fan fic at all in recent years so no rec.
Harry Potter tends to be hit and miss (an awful lot of "Harry falls in love with the cute American exchange witch" if I remember correctly). Although I did write some myself (not fantastic ;)) and I preferred writing about secondary characters where I could fill in back story.
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Safe and sound at the grandparents. I have to much cr*p. My brother, b-i-l, b-i-l's dad, and my dad are all awesome. I'm exhausted. Good night
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This is what I was trying to say about Umbridge the other week http://www.tickld.com/x/sp/the-real-reason-you-hate-umbridge-so-much
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Mayo, olives, pickles, liver, kidneys, mussels, chocolate ice cream, raw carrots, lettuce
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Bittersweet melancholy is very Ishiguro...
Remains of the Day is a brilliant, perfectly crafted book where so much of the power is in the spaces between, in the silences, in the implications. (Artist of the Floating World, which I read very recently, is also like this, but less perfectly crafted, and, for me at least, less powerful, though still an amazing book.)
Never Let Me Go isn't as quiet a book as Remains of the Day and its backward glance is not that of an unreliable narrator, but more of an unaware one. It is SFF rather than literary fiction (and unlike many lit fic authors who try genre, it does quite well at the crossover, though it is a very lit-fic-y sff book, if that makes any sense). It is also very powerful, but grimmer. I do highly recommend it, and if you prefer to genre to literary fiction, this could be a better next step. ...but RotD is, imho, Ishiguro's stand out masterpiece.
Here's Jo Walton's article on NLMG (does contain mild spoilers, but not more than most descriptions of this story do)
I LOVED Remains of the Day but could. not. stand. the narrator in Never Let Me Go, to the point where I couldn't finish it. I loved the silence of Remains. It was...well hard to describe, but as Eliana says, perfectly crafted.
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Am I the only one here that does not associate anal/oral/other sex with homosexuality?
I was born in the late 70s and work with people who were born in the 80s and 90s.
Using oral and anal to "preserve virginity", prevent pregnancy, and ostensibly prevent STIs is so common as to be cliche.
It's not about preference. Jesus, I never want to know the preference for this stuff for anyone in a direct genetic line from or to me. Bleeeergh.
It's about knowledge for informed, assertive, and well-planned choices when or if she does have the misfortune of meeting someone who is full of ish and tries to take her for a fool.
Not that you can't enjoy it, but I am thinking of the poor fools who just went along more out of shock and poor planning than anything else.
I was born in 81 and no you aren't the only one. Amongst my peers it was more along the lines of "it isn't REAL sex" not "it's what the gays do". In fact we didn't really talk about homosexuals at all.
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Sometimes my colleagues and I wonder if our students have a box of sprinkles titled apostrophes and when they don't believe their work is good enough they get out the apostrophe sprinkles and sprinkle them all over their writing. Kind of like you hide imperfections on a cake with more icing :lol:
ETA to fix a spelling error because it makes me cringe to make fun of others grammar when I can't spell
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Book a Week 2015 - BW31: analogical august
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I really liked the audio version of Room. It was fantastically well done. It is however quite a disturbing book.
I thought The Henrietta Lacks book was very thought provoking.